Solutions and Networking Engineer

Viasat, Inc. • Carlsbad, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we’re on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We’re looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.

Are you looking for a great opportunity working hands on with the world’s most ground-breaking technologies? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where you are challenged to design, setup and debug sophisticated networks for government and military customers? Would you enjoy testing innovative networking products while being part of the development team to improve the customer’s experience. Do you have a strong curiosity about pursuing business growth and innovation including understanding and contributing to business area strategies and developing a deep understanding of how to combine Viasat technologies and capabilities to address customer problems. Come join our Government Land team. Viasat is an authority in providing practical solutions for difficult communication problems, and we want you to be a part of our team.

As a member of our dynamic Land team, you will apply your network engineering skills and customer knowledge to build, implement, document, test, fix, and deploy network solutions. You will also diagnose and resolve sophisticated problems, support network architecture, and maintain various network communication protocols. Because networking is your passion, networking system commands in several platforms like Cisco, Juniper, and Linux are second nature, which allows you to easily help others in resolve networking issues. You will aide and assist in sophisticated demonstrations for current and future customers. You will be directly involved in a diverse number of communications programs and projects for US DoD customers as well as commercial applications. This fast-paced multi-tasking environment requires you to interact with a broad spectrum of program managers, hardware/software/project engineers and various internal support organizations on a regular basis. You will fix the most complex data network and hardware problems. The role involves being empowered to research technological advancements and evaluate sophisticated data networking technologies to understand their potential. You will occasionally travel to participate in field work at customer sites internationally and domestically.

Requirements

• Associates Degree or equivalent experience related to technological work
• 10+ years working with Cisco Switch/Routers/ASA Firewalls, or equivalent, alongside practical involvement in network development including Layer 2/3 compose
• 5+ years experience with Linux based systems
• Advanced proficiency in fixing and tuning the component hardware, software, networking and communications protocol problems
• Detailed understanding of routing protocols encompassing EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, HSRP, VRRP and network based ACL's together with switching protocols 802.1D, 802.1Q, 802.1ad, QinQ, STP.
• Proven expertise in protocol standards such as IPv4, Mobile IP, 802.11b/g, GRE, ARP, DMVPN, and IPSEC
• Strong proficiency with network Monitoring protocols and tools such as Wireshark, WinPcap, and Nfdump; as well as with network management protocols such as SNMP, LDAP and AAA
• Up to 50% domestic and international travel
• US Citizenship
• Active Secret Clearance required

Nice To Haves

• Former military experience
• Military Satellite Communications experience
• Experience in understanding USMC concepts of employment
• History of supporting deployed forces is the Pacific region
• CCNA and/or CCNP Certification
• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field or equivalent professional experience
• RED side network design, and high-assurance inline network encryptors
• Prior experience working with virtualization (ESXi, KVM)
• Prior experience with network traffic generators (Spirent, Ixia, etc.)
• Knowledge/Experience of cloud platforms: Amazon, Openstack, Microsoft’s Azure, Google Cloud Platform

Responsibilities

• build, implement, document, test, fix, and deploy network solutions
• diagnose and resolve sophisticated problems
• support network architecture
• maintain various network communication protocols
• aide and assist in sophisticated demonstrations for current and future customers
• fix the most complex data network and hardware problems
• research technological advancements and evaluate sophisticated data networking technologies to understand their potential
• travel to participate in field work at customer sites internationally and domestically

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree